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Let’s Not Waste Human Potential on PowerPoint. What the fuck are we doing?

We take all this brilliance—all this raw, unfiltered creativity—and we smother it in clerical admin. Kids grow up believing they can be astronauts, artists, inventors. Then we funnel 99% of them into jobs that involve sending emails to each other and formatting decks. And we call that “knowledge work.” It’s bleak. This generation is staring down the barrel of the same trap our parents escaped: monotonous, repetitive work. Just without the grease and grit of the factory floor. Now it’s air-conditioned and branded. Still repetitive. Still soul-draining. Still a massive waste of potential.And yes, there’s pride in work. There’s community. That’s always been true. But the job itself? Come on. Creating operating models, sending them around for review, then revising the deck for the fifth time before a meeting that could’ve been an email? This is the mine. This is the factory. Just with fewer moving parts and more performance reviews. Our kids should look back at this era the same way we look at the industrial age. With a mix of awe, confusion, and thank-God-we-moved-on. Because we can move on.

We now have tools—AI being one of them—that can absorb the drudgery. That can take the admin, the forms, the filler tasks, and let people actually think. Create. Solve. Imagine. That’s the promise. Not fewer jobs. Better ones. If we’re serious about progress, we’ve got to stop worshipping the process. The decks. The status updates. The endless meetings about meetings. We’ve got to get out of our own way. Let’s not build a future where brilliance gets buried under bullet points.

Let’s do better than PowerPoint.